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The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (1885) By: (pen name) Charles Egbert Craddock ( Mary Noailles Murfree)

The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (1885) By: (pen name) Charles Egbert Craddock ( Mary Noailles Murfree)

Craddock, Charles Egbert

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 154460565X
ISBN13: 9781544605654
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 10 2017
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Mary Noailles Murfree (January 24, 1850 - July 31, 1922) was an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature. The town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is named after Murfree's great-grandfather Colonel Hardy Murfree, who fought in the Revolutionary War.Murfree was born on her family's cotton plantation, Grantland, near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a location later celebrated in her novel,

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